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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
AUGUSTA, GA. 
VOT, III., I>0. 7 JULY, 1845. 
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ern Cultivator (except advertisements) must 
be in the hands of the Editor at Athens by 12 
o’clock of the 20th of the month ; otherwise they 
cannot be inserted in the number published on 
the first oi the month next thereafter. 
Many postmasters continue to send money for 
subscriptions to the editor at Athens. They are 
p irtlc! larly requested to address, hereafter, all 
letters relating to subscriptions to the publishers 
at Augusta. 
When will the South awake to a proper sense 
of its own true interest, and of the importance 
of its industry not only to the rest of the United 
States, but to the whole civilized world. Just 
look at this table, made out by the National In- 
telligencer from the public records, for the year 
ending 30th June, 1844. 
TABLE 
Shewing the export of leading articles of domestic 
produce, for the yearending the 3t)lh June, 1814. Ac- 
cording to the table, the amount exported of each 
article was as follows : 
Cotton $54,063,601 
Tobacco 8,397,282 
Rice 2,182.468 
Bread stuffs 9,056,961) 
Beef, Pork, dec 6,149,379 
Products of the sea 3,350.501 
Products of the forrest 5,80^,712 
Manufactures of cotton .2,898,780 
Other manufactures 5.0S0.854 
All other articles 2,726.760 
Total amount of exports was $99,715,197 
We say again, e.xamine this table carefullv, 
and compare the exports of Southern agricultu- 
ral products with the exports of all other arti- 
cles of every sort put together. 
Total exports, near. $100,000,000 
Cotton alone, more than half the whole, over. 54.000, 000 
Cotton and Rice, over 56,000,000 
■Cotton, Rice and Tobacco, over 64,000,000 
All other exports, less than 36,000,000 
The reader’s attention is particularly directed 
to the Report, published in this number, of the 
Committee on Farms of the Agricultural Society 
of Pendleton District, S. C, The whole report 
w Ube found very interesting; and more espe- 
cia :y that part of it which describes the farm 
and extraordinary managem.ent of the Hon. 
John C. C alhoun. 
The reader will, we hope, have detected 
ani corrected for himself, in the ninth line of 
the editorial article on feeding plants, in our last 
number, the unfortunate error by which the word 
grapes was put for grasses. 
Products of Southern Industry. 
Somebody has written, that “mankind might 
do without physicians, it they would observe 
the laws ot healthy without lawyers, if they 
would keep their tempers; without soldiers, if 
they would observe the laws of peace ; and with- 
out preachers, if each one would take care of 
his own conscience;— but there is no doing 
without farmers.” 
If this be true as regards fanners, how much 
stronger the case is as regards the planters of 
the South, must be manifest on an examination 
of the following table. How would the United 
States get along without the 50 or 60 miliions of 
wealth brought into the country every year by 
our cotton crop 1 What would become of the 
millions of people in other parts of the United 
Sia’es who live chiefly by means of this wealth 1 
Is it at all surprising that the people of other 
States, who, by means of their own resources, 
can hardly keep soul and body together, seeing 
what the annual income of the South is, should 
strive so diligently to get their hands into our 
pocketsi But it is surprising — it does move 
our especial wonder — that our people should, so 
patiently, and lor so long a time, have submit- 
ted to a system of pillage according to law, and 
of waste from their own folly and bad manage- 
ment, that has made the South one wide scene 
of desolation, compared with the appearance of 
things among our neighbors who are living 
mainly on the fruits of our industry. 
With such an income annually, what ought 
not the South to be--and what is its condition ? 
Let every one who has any hand in the creation 
of this vast amount of wealth, look around him, 
and ask himself what has become of it. Then 
1ft him, with firm resolve, set about eorrecling, 
as far as he can, the existing stale of things, by 
supplying his wants, as far as possible, from 
his own plantation; buying, if he must buy, 
nothing that he can do without, of either food, 
clothing, implements or luxuries, that is not the 
product of Southern labor; and, above all, re- 
pressing in himself, and discountenancing in 
others, that spirit of absenteeism, that has 
wrought us, perhaps, as much mischief as any 
other single folly we have indulged ourselves in. 
Southern Folly. 
OurSouthern people are, beyond all question, 
the slowest to learn wisdom of any people on 
this earth. Here we are with an impoverished 
soil, a staple to the cultivation of which all our 
energies have been devoted in times past, now 
reduced to a price in the market that barely re- 
munerates the planter for his outlay of capital 
and labor— if, indaed, it does that; pressed down 
and plundered and spurned by an unprincipled 
combination, who contrive, by iniquitous laws, 
that we shall eat only such part of the truits of 
our own labor as they choose to allow; and 
surrounded by enemies who are both openly and 
in .secret striking at the very existence of our 
insLitution.s, and of our property; and yet we 
coolly and calmly and inconsiderately in- 
dulge in our old habits of profusion and extra- 
vagance, formed when cotton bore a good price, ^ 
and money was abundant; when the Constitu- 
tion afforded us protection from plunder, and 
our institutions were not meddled with. Read 
the following extract from an account, by the 
New York Herald, of the late race on Long Is- 
land between Peytona and Fashion, and the 
conclusion is irresistible that the people of the 
South have yet to suffer more severely before 
they come to their senses, ft i.s too bad to have 
it said of us, sneeringly and contemptuously, 
“ how freely the South will spend its winnings — 
Peytona didn’t fly round the Union course so 
fast as her liberal supporters will dash through 
their tens and their fitties, ’till they reach the 
last dollar.” “The Southern men will spend 
their last cent heie.” Surely men who will act 
so as to expose themselves to such remarks— 
who will act in a manner so utterly ruinous to 
the part of the country in whic!» they live, and 
in which they expect to die -squandering their 
money among a people who, when all is spent, 
regard them with supreme contempt, who have 
not one single feeling of sympathy with us of 
the South. Surely men who act thus ought to 
sufier. 
From the New York Herald. 
And has not the North been well licked? 
Half a million of dollars has been lost. Thai’s 
the way to reach the tender sensibilities of the 
Northern men. As 
The touched needle trembles to the pole, 
so do their souls forever turn to that great ner- 
vous centre ot sentiment and feeling— the pock- 
et. Thai is the only accessible avenue to their 
humanity, and into that the South has now 
“ walked” with a vengeance. Half a million of 
dollars! How the poor creatures bleed ! The 
shock vibrates in every nerve. It will take 
years of thimble-rigging to make up the loss to 
many of our respectable, honorable, liberal, up- 
right, loafing Northern “jockeys.” And then, 
how freely the South will spend its winnings! 
Peytona didn’t fly round the Union Course so 
fast as her liberal supporters will dash through 
their “tens” and “fifties,” till th=y reach (he 
last dollar. The hotel-keepers— the caharehers 
--the professors of the bilLe—?Lnd all the practi- 
cal philosophers who kindly reduce the plethora 
ol the votaries of pleasure and “the turf,” are 
felicitating themselves on the victory of the 
South. The Southern men, say they, will 
spend their last cent here; whilst the Northern 
and Eastern men, it they had won, would have 
buttoned up their pockets and “ mizzled.” 
Keuilwortli Pigs. 
The American Agriculturist, speaking of the 
pigs purchased of R. L. Allen, of Buffalo, by Da- 
vid Bryan, of Bellevue, Talbot county, Georgia, 
says they are of “ the largest and finest white 
breed to be found in England. Two sows of this 
lot were judged to weigh over 500 lbs., in good 
breeding condition, and may be fattened to weigh 
700 lbs. The yearling boar was large and fine 
and would weigh about 400 lbs. There were 
some younger ones in the lot quite as [iromising. 
These animals were ordered by Mr. Bryan, for 
the purpose of meeting the taste of those plan- 
ters who wish more size than is generally found 
in the other good breeds. We are confident they 
will be satisfied in this respect, and get their pork 
with a reasonable amount of feed, which is sel- 
dom the case with overgrown animals. We are 
glad to nolice these improvements going forward 
at the South. We can confidently recommend 
the importation of Mr. Bryan to his neighbors in 
Georgia.” 
Oatmeal as Human Food. 
The American Agriculturist, in the number 
for March, spoke in commendation ot the value 
of oatmeal as food for man. Thereupon also 
Blackwood’s Magazine holds forth in the fol- 
lowing lofty style in praise ot Scotland’s favo- 
rite oat-cakes and porridge, bannocks and brose ; 
“You won’t pity us Scotch oatmeal caters 
any more, Mr. Cockney, we guess. Experi- 
